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New Research on Teen Vaping, Plus More – Tobacco Harm Reduction News

December 7, 2020 Tobacco Harm Reduction News

Researchers find teen vaping is not leading to increased teen smoking. Heads Up for vape taxes in Anchorage, Alaska and residential use bans in San Francisco, California!  Dr. Michael Siegel, Boston University, comments on the San Francisco vaping ban. Helen Redmond reviews Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020 in Filter Mag.

RESEARCH // Teen Vaping & Smoking

In direct contradiction to ANTZ claims,  University of Michigan and Georgetown University researchers confirm “rapid increase in e-cigarette use has NOT yet resulted in a reversal of the decreasing trends of cigarette smoking” by teen vaping and “if anything, those trends have accelerated.”

READ MORE: Teen Smoking Rates Drop, E-Cig Use Rises: Study

HEADS UP // San Francisco, California

San Francisco lawmakers have exempted cannabis smoking from their smoking and vaping ban in multi-unit homes, because “cannabis smoke has not been proven to be harmful to humans,” but still ban vaping with without any evidence of harm to vapers or bystanders and despite the fact that vapor products have been proven to help adults quit smoking.

READ MORE: San Francisco to ban tobacco smoking in apartments – but not cannabis

DO MORE: If you live in California, join the CASAA California Facebook Group

HEADS UP // Anchorage, Alaska

Although clearly aware that the increase in adult and teen use of 95% safer vapor products has corresponded with record low smoking rates, city leaders decide it makes sense to reduce use of vapor products with a 55% tax that will negatively impact both youth and adult vaping and likely reverse the decline in smoking.

https://twitter.com/hbowly/status/1336033383885881344

READ MORE: Anchorage Vape Tax: 55% on All Vape Products

DO MORE: If you live in Alaska, join the CASAA Alaska Facebook Group

REVIEW // Helen Redmond, Filter Mag

Read an excellent summary of “Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020,” which is the second in the GSTHR series, documenting “the development of tobacco harm reduction and use, availability and regulatory responses to safer nicotine products around the world.” The first report, “No Fire, No Smoke,” was released in 2018.

Ms. Redmond writes, “Overall, this report is proof positive that tobacco harm reduction works and SNP (safer nicotine products) are a life-saving, game changer for all groups” of people who smoke.

https://twitter.com/aftariak/status/1333847849436667904

READ MORE: Burning Issues: A Call to Liberate Vapes and Vapers

COMMENTARY // Dr. Michael Siegel, Boston University

“So, now you can go to any convenience store in San Francisco and buy a pack of Marlboros or Camels, no questions asked. But if you want an electronic cigarette to try to quit smoking, you can’t buy that in San Francisco. And that makes no sense whatsoever.”

“If the principle here is that nobody in an apartment should be exposed to harmful combusted products from an adjacent apartment, then there’s no justification for saying, ‘we’re banning tobacco, but not cannabis.’”

Dr. Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at Boston University’s School of Public Health and a long-time vaping advocate, made several remarks during a conference call with journalists, after the San Francisco board of supervisors voted 10-to-1 to prohibit smoking and vaping, but exempted cannabis which, Seigel says, undermines the stated goals of risk reduction.

READ MORE: Public Health Expert: San Fran’s Vaping Ban ‘Makes No Sense’